by Cassy | Sep 14, 2018 | Knitting, Tips, WIP
Are you ever knitting along on a glorious sweater pattern and you can’t wait to wear it, only to be confronted by the sleeves at the end of the pattern? Then you feel slightly defeated as sleeves always take longer than you think. You’re not alone,...
by Cassy | Sep 5, 2018 | Knitting, WIP
So far this sweater is going better than expected. Despite feeling like it was never growing in length, it eventually did get to the 15.5 inches and I moved on to the armhole shaping. Then things went much more quickly with the body. This sweater is Docklight and...
by Cassy | Aug 22, 2018 | knitalong, Knitting, WIP
Ok, so this sweater is not actually shrinking. It just feels like it. This is Docklight and it’s a gloriously beautiful pattern from Brooklyn Tweed. However, the fisherman’s rib just will not grow. I don’t think I’m giving a trade secret away...
by Cassy | Jul 28, 2018 | Knitting, WIP
I’ve been working on Tarmac from the Summer 2018 edition of Pompom Quarterly. It lightly rests on my body when tried on, worked in lightweight fingering cotton/wool blend. I think it will be my lightest weight knitted summer top yet that also does not require a...
by Cassy | Jul 5, 2018 | Knitting, WIP
I started working on Vasarely at the beginning of a trip to San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. Though this pattern isn’t difficult, I ended up ripping out the beginning of it at least 3 times due to the inability to sit and work on it for a long enough stretch...
by Cassy | Jun 28, 2018 | Knitting, Mishap, WIP
I’m working on an Anker’s Summer Shirt and it’s been a bit chaotic for such a simple knit. The pattern mentions that the shirt will stretch about 2 inches when worn. I did a quick swatch and it seemed like the US size 6 needles were the right ones...
